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THE REVELATIONS OF AN 

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With an introduction by 
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Book" which proves that he was in the British Army. 



Copyrighted 1916 

by 

American Truth Society 




FOREWORD. 



Daniel H. Wallace, whose statement and affidavit 
follow, is an American citizen who was carried away at 
the beginning of the war by statements published in 
newspapers, as well as statements made to him by Brit- 
ish agents who operated around newspaper bulletin- 
boards, about German atrocities, German militarism and 
the fight which Great Britain claims to be making for 
civilization. 

He was sent to the American Truth Society by the 
"Staats-Zeitung," a German-American newspaper, pub- 
lished in the City of New York, in order that his evi- 
dence might be preserved. The object in setting forth 
his story in question and answer form was to give the 
reader the real statement of the man. Frequently, state- 
ments are written in narrative form, with the result that 
they really become the statements of the writer. They 
may read like fiction, but they are not always the facts. 
In this instance, Mr. Wallace answered in his own way 
and directly. 

The undersigned has had considerable experience 
in trial work as an advocate at the bar, and has had ex- 
cellent opportunities of judging the credibility of wit- 
nesses. In order that the unbiased reader may be as- 
sured of the responsibility of these statements and the 
credibility of this witness, the undersigned has added 
certain documents to identify the man, but beyond that 
he can only say that Mr. Wallace impressed him as a 
reliable, truthful man. 

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He found his way back to the bulletin-boards after 
sad and bitter experiences, with a bandage about his 
head, blinded in one eye, with his right foot crippled as 
his photograph shows him, having been wounded eight 
times, and with an entirely different version of the 
war from that which had been whispered to him by the 
seductive agents of the British Empire, who are oper- 
ating everywhere in the United States, enticing re- 
spectable and sturdy youths from their families and 
communities, to listen to the vulgar mouthings of the 
scum of England's lower classes, and to observe the 
practices of men who are lower than beasts. 

He has informed the undersigned that he has wit- 
nessed experiences which are unmentionable, which 
the laws would forbid in our mails, and which could not 
be printed for public circulation. He has witnessed 
all the unspeakable immoralities of the British army, 
in hospitals, at army posts, in encampments and even 
on the firing line, where it would seem the minds of 
men so near death would be lifted up into the presence 
of a living God, before whom some of them were soon 
to appear. 

The American Truth Society has given to the pub- 
lic in pamphlet form the true story of the Baralong 
atrocity, where German sailors were murdered in cold 
blood, when begging for mercy in the water, or when 
seeking harbor on the British merchant steamer "Nico- 
sian" nearby. In the interest of truth, it has undertaken 
the publication of the weird and revolting experiences 
of Mr. Wallace, in so far as they are printable. 

His story should have peculiar interest at this time. 
As the American citizen reads it, the questions naturally 
suggest themselves: What is our Government going to 

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do about it? What steps will Congress take to investi- 
gate the conditions surrounding British recruiting in 
the United States? What will the United States Dis- 
trict Attorney for the Southern District of New York 
do? Mr. Marshall has shown much energy in prose- 
cuting Germans. What will he do to punish Captain 
Roach for subornation of perjury and violation of our 
neutrality laws? What steps will be taken by our State 
Department to demand the recall of Captain Roach, as 
well as the recall of the British Consul? What steps 
will be taken by our Government to ascertain the con- 
nection between the $10 given by Mr. Langley to Mr. 
Wallace, with the St. George's Society with which Mr. 
Langley is connected, with the British Government, the 
White Star Line, the British Consulate and the British 
Ambassador, Cecil Spring-Rice? Is it possible that 
agents of Great Britain are walking the streets of our 
great cities bringing into British consulates recruits 
from newspaper bulletin-boards, and paying them $10 a 
head, besides passage money, without the knowledge 
of British officials? 

The State Department, the United States District 
Attorney, and even some of our Congressmen and 
Senators may say, for pro-British or for partisan 
political reasons — disinclined, perhaps, to disturb the 
serenity of the Wilson Administration — that these 
statements are not convincing, that no evidence 
appears to connect the British officials in this country 
with these extraordinary facts, but the fact that the 
Sergeant-Major on the ''Baltic" made three trips and 
knew that these men were American citizens, the fact 
that Major McLean, who took Mr. Wallace to Leeds, 
knew the circumstances, the fact that Captain Roach's 
examination in the Consulate was more of a formality 
than an examination to ascertain the facts, proves, and 

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should prove to the ordinary citizen of the United States 
that failure to act, or the suggestion of "not proven," 
may be born of an all-too-great desire on the part of our 
Government to permit England to obtain aid from this 
Republic, not only by munitions but also from American 
flesh and blood. 

The undersigned has therefore brought this matter 
before the American Truth Society, which at a meeting 
of its Board of Trustees, held January 22nd, 1916, de- 
cided to publish this statement and to forward a copy of 
it to the President of the United States, the Secretary 
of State, and to every member of Congress, besides 
offering it for sale to the public at a price which will 
pay the expenses of publication and the work involved 
in selling it, also giving the unfortunate man an oppor- 
tunity to sell to his fellow-citizens his own story in read- 
able shape, in order that he may keep the wolf from his 
door by an honorable occupation. 

We expect that some newspapers will look askance 
at the story. They won't like it, of course. It seems 
strange that they are so reluctant to believe any facts 
which expose their beloved favorite in this war, whilst 
they are quick to ram down the throats of the people 
every rumor or suggestion which emanates from Lon- 
don — the most untrustworthy source of news in the 
world. They exploit all news which reflects in any way 
upon the Teutonic countries, their armies, navies, or 
their people. To such news they give great headlines, 
and to make sure that it has struck home they write 
scathing editorials to make their readers Germanphobes, 
and ripe for recruiting "cappers" who hang around their 
bulletin-boards. It is such things that the American 
Truth Society is striving to end. Why should not such 
efforts be supported? 



It is a notorious fact that around the newspaper 
bulletin-boards and upon the streets of the City of New 
York, the British Consulate has been recruiting since 
the war began. The Russian Government has been do- 
ing likewise, as have Italy and France. Why are not the 
hounds of our Secret Service, sleuths who have been 
relentlessly pursuing Germans since the war began, let 
loose upon these violators of our neutrality? All that 
is needed is the will to do it, but apparently it is absent. 
The American Truth Society, while it will present this 
statement to the proper authorities, has no faith in their 
purpose to accomplish justice in this matter. It will sur- 
prise us if any action is taken — and if it is, it will sur- 
prise us if it is "on the level." 

It may be quite true that Mr. Wallace participated 
in the wrong, but his participation is no reason why the 
facts should be disregarded. It is the contention of 
the American Truth Society that his condition of mind 
was created by lies which were published in our press at 
the beginning of and during the war. It is to be assumed 
that men who are not trained to resist falsehoods will 
be victimized by them. Our Society, therefore, presents 
this story more to the American people than to officials 
who have ulterior motives for disregarding it. The 
people have no such motives. The poor, suffering peo- 
ple ! How frequently they have been victimized ! 

Mr. Wallace, by reason of his permanent disabili- 
ties, will not become a charge of Great Britain. If, by 
any chance, his injuries prevent him from making any 
livelihood, he must become a charge and a tax upon this, 
his native land. He gave Britain his body, but she de- 
ducted money to bury him before he was killed. She 
might have made him carry his coffin, too.' From a pub- 
lic standpoint, the condition in which Mr. Wallace finds 



himself should compel our public officials to act, in order 
to put a stop to an evil which he so well illustrates, for 
the benefit of his fellow-countrymen, for the dignity of 
our laws, and the quieting of those ugly suspicions 
which so many of our people have about the one-sided 
policy of the prosecuting branch of our District Attor- 
ney's offices. 

Some of the important features of this story are 
incidents related in connection with the visit of our 
sailors at Alexandria, as well as those related concern- 
ing the attitude of the British soldier towards Mr. Wal- 
lace. These facts will be received with considerable 
surprise. They are at serious variance with the treat- 
ment accorded Americans at banquets and functions 
where the "class" of both countries wine and dine, 
planning the public opinion which will be dished out by 
the press to-morrow. 

It has been constantly asserted that Great Britain 
is our "mother country"; that the people of the two 
countries love each other, but Mr. Wallace sets forth 
the true situation. They love us for the money we can 
make for them, or for the blood we can shed for them. 

Another important part of the story was the use 
made of hospital-ships, ambulances and Red Cross flags 
by the British at the Dardanelles and in France. Hints 
of such conduct have been made frequently by Germany, 
but as they were unfavorable to Great Britain, they 
have been uniformly disregarded by our pro-British 
press. We have occasionally read of Germans firing 
upon the Red Cross, etc., in reports from London. Mr. 
Wallace gives us the reason. The best way that Britain 
could secure protection for her batteries, masked as 
hospitals, was to make complaints every time the Ger- 
mans fired upon their guns thus protected. Upon the 

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information given by Mr. Wallace, Germany is justified 
in treating every British Red Cross flag as a battery, 
and every hospital-ship as a troop-ship or munition car- 
rier, and to act accordingly. 

His statements about the attitude of British sol- 
diers to American Red Cross nurses at Alexandria are a 
revelation. No doubt, these nurses will confirm them^ 
unless they may be induced not to do so by British 
authorities before they return to the United States, as 
they tried to induce Americans to tell lies about the 
Baralong atrocity. 

The kindness shown to Mr. Wallace by the native 
Egyptian woman who aided him in making his escape, 
is in sharp contrast with the conduct of captors who 
aimed to prevent it. How little the American people 
appreciate the feelings towards us of those who are 
struggling to be free ! How the minds of liberty-loving 
people seem to turn towards us, regarding our Declara- 
tion of Independence, and their desire for liberty, as the 
bond which unites us with them! Have we earned this 
confidence? If Mr. Roosevelt's declarations in London 
about Egypt are the sentiments of the American people, 
we would not be worthy of the kindness shown by this 
Egyptian woman to one of our fellow-citizens. But 
they are not. This Egyptian woman has replied to Mr. 
Roosevelt's cruel suggestions with good. 

It is side-lights such as Mr. Wallace's testimony 
which disclose the truth, and it will be the repetition of 
similar experiences by other men, who have been simi- 
larly inveigled into the British service— if they survive 
—that shall finally open the eyes of the American people 
to the real feelings of British soldiers towards 
Americans, to the real violators of our neutrality, to 
the expenditures of British monev in our country and 



to the real facts as they have occurred during the pro- 
gress of the war. 

In conclusion, it cannot be said that this story is 
pro-German or German. It comes from an American 
citizen who was made pro-British or anti-German by 
the newspapers, just as so many of our good people 
have been. He, perhaps, was more affected than many 
others, because he went further. He actually enlisted 
to fight the Germans. He has had his foot almost blown 
off and his eye knocked out for his delusions. He is 
now cured. Must we have our feet blown off and our 
eyes knocked out before we, too, are cured? 

We would like to send this booklet to every news- 
paper in the United States, but unless someone with 
the necessary means aids us to do so, it cannot be done. 

AMERICAN TRUTH SOCIETY, 

Jeremiah A. O'Leary, 

President. 





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The Story of Daniel Wallace 
As Told by Himself. 



ExEimined by Mr. O'Leary : 

Q. What is your name? A. Daniel H. Wallace. 

Q. How old are you? A. 32. 

Q. Where do you reside. A. At present, No. 11 
Second Street, New York City. 

Q. What is your permanent address? A. Tuc- 
son, Arizona. 

Q. Who sent you to this office? A. The "Staats- 
Zeitung." 

Q. What was your purpose in coming here? 
A. Well, they said over there that you might be in- 
terested in my story. 

Q. Did you ever enlist in the army or navy in 
England? A. Yes, in the army. 

Q. Where did you sign enlistment papers? A. In 
Leeds, Yorkshire, England. 

Q. How did you happen to get there? A. I was 
sent over by the British Government. 

Q. Through what agency? A. Through the 
British Consulate in New York. 

The Recruiting Capper. 

Q. How did you happen to go to the British Con- 
sulate? A. I was stopped by a man in the street, who 
asked me if I wanted a job, and I said "Yes," as I was 

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not working at the time, and he took me to the British 
Consulate, where I submitted to a physical examination 
in the presence of Captain Roach, the British Consul, a 
medical inspector and different officers, whereupon I 
signed a piece of paper — I do not know what it was. 

Q. When you got to the British Consul's office 
was anything said about a job? A. They asked me if 
I ever served in the British Army. I said, "Yes." 

Q. Why did you say, "Yes"? A. The man who 
picked me up on the street told me to say that I had 
served in the British Army. 

Q. Did he tell you to say you were a British sub- 
ject ? A. Yes. 

Q. Did this conversation with this man occur in 
the Consulate's office or on the street? A. On the 
street. 

Q. How did you happen to meet him? A. He 
ran into me accidentally at the Post-Office Building, 
uptown. 

Q. What were you doing at the post-office build- 
ing? A. I was talking to a couple of Englishmen. 

Q. Did you know who they were? A. No, I met 
them in front of the newspaper bulletin-board. 

The "Times'* Bulletin-board as a Headquarters. 

Q. What bulletin-board? A. The New York 
"Times," near 42nd Street. 

Q. How did you happen to go to the Post-Office 
Building with them? A. We were just walking 
around. 

Q. Did these two men seem to know the other 
man ? A. Yes, they were acquainted. 

Q. Would you know all these men if you saw them 
again? A. Most decidedly. 

Q. Did Captain Roach, of the British Consul's 

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office, indicate by any sign of recognition that he knew 
this man? A. No, so far as I could see. 

Q. Did Captain Roach and this man talk in the 
office? A. That I can't say; the man took me there, 
and left me in an ante-room. 

Q. Where did he go then? A. He went out in 
the hall again. 

Q. Did Captain Roach ask you who brought you 
there? A. No, sir. 

Q. Who first spoke to you in the Consul's office? 
A. A clerk. 

Q. What did the clerk say to you? A. He asked 
me if I was a British subject, and what regiment I be- 
longed to. 

Q. Did you give him the name of any regiment? 
A. Yes. 

Q. What name did you give? A. I used the 
name "Driscoll Scouts." 

Q. Who told you that name? A. The man who 
picked me up on the street. 

Q. Did this man who accosted you, either in his 
manner or speech, impress you as an Englishman or 
American? A. As an Englishman — I should say he 
was a Scotchman. 

Captain Roach. 

Q. Did Captain Roach ask you for any written 
papers or proofs to show that you were either a British 
subject or that you had really belonged to any British 
regiment? A. No, they just asked me a few questions. 

Q. What kind of questions, for instance? 
A. Where I was born, names of my parents, their na- 
tionality; where I lived in this country; when I left the 
British Army, and so forth. 

Q. What answers did you make? A. I cannot 

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exactly remember just now, but I answered according 
to the way I was told to answer by the man whom I met 
on the street. 

Q. Did the information that this stranger gave 
you answer every question asked you at the Consulate? 
A. Yes, sir; the stranger seemed to know every ques- 
tion the Consul would ask me. 

Q. Who asked you these questions in the Consul- 
ate? A. First the clerk and then Captain Roach. 

Q. Describe Captain Roach? A. A young man, 
about thirty years of age, thin face, medium height, 
rather dissipated appearance, nervous in his actions and 
manner. 

Q. Were there any other men being asked ques- 
tions at the same time as you? A. About twelve others. 

Q. Did they go through the same process of ques- 
tioning? A. Yes. 

Q. Did these other men, by their actions or man- 
ner, impress you as English or American? A. Some 
were Americans and some were English; and some were 
Canadians who had been sent from Chicago to the Con- 
sulate in New York. 

Q. Did you swear to any papers in the Consulate? 
A. I swore I was a British subject. 

Q. How did you happen to do that? A. The 
man who brought me in told me to do it. 

Q. How was the man who brought you there 
dressed — that is to say, poorly or well? A. Dressed in 
an average business man's suit; fairly well dressed. 

Q. After you took an oath that you were a British 
subject, were you subjected to a physical examination? 
A. Yes. 

Q. By whom? A. By a doctor. 

Q. Do you know his name? A. No, I cannot say. 

Q. After these things were done, did you make 

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any arrangements for passage to England? A. Yes, 
I was sent to a Mr. Langley, with a letter, at the White 
Star Line Building. 

Mr. Langley. 

Q. Did you see Mr. Langley? A. I saw a gen- 
tleman who gave me an order for a ticket to the White 
Star Line. 

Q. Did you go and get your ticket? A. Yes, sir. 

Q. Did you receive any money? A. Yes, $10. 

Q. From whom? A. Mr. Langley. 

0. How long after that did you sail for England? 
A. The same day. 

Q. What date was that? A. That I can't say; 
sometime in the middle of January, 1915. 

Assumed Name. 

Q. What name did you give at the British Consul- 
ate? A. Patrick O'Connor. 

Q. When you went to the British Consulate, did 
they talk there about giving you a job or did they talk 
about enlisting as a soldier? A. They talked about 
enlisting as a soldier; they asked me if I would be true 
to my King and country; I said I would. 

Q. What was your purpose in permitting this man 
who accosted you on the street to induce you to take a 
false oath on these matters and make these false state- 
ments? A. I had been reading the newspapers about 
German atrocities, and being out of work, and having 
no prospects in view to obtain any work, I made up my 
mind that I would go over there and fight the Germans. 

Q. How many times did you meet these two Eng- 
lishmen who took the walk with you? A. Just that 
once. 

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Q. How long were you with them before they 
took a walk with you? A. Two or three hours. 

Drinks. 

Q. Did they talk to anybody else around the bul- 
letin-boards, besides yourself? A. There were three 
or four of us there; they took us into a saloon and 
bought us drinks and talked about German atrocities 
and who started the war, and they worked me up so that 
I was ready to do anything. 

Q. While you were in the British Consulate's 
office, did they treat you with consideration, or roughly? 
A. They acted as though they were very glad to get 
me. 

Q. These other men who were in the office with 
you at the same time — did they answer the questions 
directly that were asked them, or, did they seem to hesi- 
tate? A. Well, some of them answered straight off, 
and some seemed to hesitate. 

Q. Did you know the other men, or who they 
were? A. No. 

Q. Do you remember the names they used? 
A. No. 

Q. Did they go over on the "Baltic" with you? 
A. Yes. 

The "Baltic." 

Q. How many men went in your contingent on 
the "Baltic"? A. About twenty. 

Q. Did they talk with you on the way over? 
A. Yes; all the way over. 

Q. Did you ask any of them who they were? 
A. Yes. 

Q. What did they say? A. Some said that they 
were Americans like myself. 

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Q. Did any of them state where they came from? 
A. Yes, some of them said they were picked up on the 
street. 

Q. On the street? A. Yes; some in Chicago, 
some in New York and some in Philadelphia. 

Q. Did they tell you how they were picked up? 
A. No. 

Q. Was there anybody in charge of your party? 
A. Yes, a man was in charge of us who said he had 
been a Sergeant Major in the British Army. 

Q. When you landed in Liverpool, what did they 
do with you? A. Two or three recruiting officers came 
on board. 

Q. What did they do? A. This Sergeant Ma- 
jor approached them and gave them the names of all the 
men he had in his charge. 

Q. Then what happened? A. They asked each 
man what regiment he wanted to enlist in; but there 
was a man there who had been a deserter from the 
British Army; he gave himself up and he was taken 
in custody. 

Q. What did they do with the rest of you? 
A. We were distributed around to various recruiting 
offices and sent to different places. 

Q. Were the Americans kept together? A. They 
were split up, too. 

Q. When the ship landed, where did they take 
you? A. I was taken to a place near Lime Street, 
called St. George's Hall. 

Q. What happened there? A. There I was sub- 
mitted to another physical examination. 

Q. After this examination, what did they do? 
A. I told them I wanted to enlist in the Coldstream 
Guards. 

Q. How did you happen to pick them out? 

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A. The Sergeant Major on the way over suggested it. 
Q. Did you tell the Sergeant Major on the way 
over that you were an American citizen? A. Yes. 

The Sergeant Major. 

Q. What did he say? A. He said, "That's noth- 
ing; Americans are the younger generation of the Brit- 
ish and they ought to do their bit in the war, the same as 
anybody else." 

Q. Did these other Americans tell the Sergeant 
Major that they were Americans? A. Some of them 
did, but I can't say as to all. 

Q. Was there any secret with the Sergeant Major 
on the way over of the fact that some of the men were 
not British subjects? A. No, they made no secret of 
it. 

Q. This Sergeant Major that took you over, 
where did you first meet him? A. In the British Con- 
sulate. 

Q. Did you know his name? A. No, I can't re- 
member it. 

Q. Was he going over to enlist or just taking men 
over? A. According to his statement, this was his 
third trip. In our conversations, he told about taking 
other men over on previous trips who were Americans. 

Q. When you found that you could not enlist in 
the Coldstream Guards, what did you do then? A. The 
Sergeant Major took me and introduced me to an army 
officer named Major McLean, of the Legion of Fron- 
tiersmen, who took me to Leeds, personally, where I 
later enlisted in the Coldstream Guards. 

Major McLean. 

Q. Did you tell Major McLean that you were an 
American? A. He seemed to know all about it. 

Q. Did you have any conversation with him on 

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AldTHtNG !s to be written oa |hls side esc^t t&e 
4|!te and signature of the sender. Sentene^ not 
required miay l)a erased. If anything else is added 
the post card tvill be destroyed. 



/•aTn. qu4t^ well. 

I have been admitted, into hospital 
(sick ) arid' arn going on well, 

C wounded ) and hope to be discharged soon. 

I am b^ing sent dowh to the base. 

C letter dated 

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Letter folloUos at first opportunity/: 

I have received 710 letter from' yOii 
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This is a facsimile reproduction of postal cards presented to each soldier for 

communicating with friends. Note how the British Government 

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the way to Leeds ? A. Yes ; we talked about the favor- 
able opinion of America towards England and also 
about the attitude of the United States Government. 

Q. What did he say about that? A. He seemed 
favorably impressed with the attitude of Americans, but 
said that he was disappointed in the fact that British 
subjects were not enlisting in the army as they should. 

Q. Did you have any talk with him about Amer- 
icans enlisting in the British Army? A. Yes, he told 
me about various contingents that came over to enlist 
before mine. 

Q. Did you talk to him about the way the thing 
was done? A. Yes; he seemed to know all about it. 

Enlisted. 

Q. When you got to Leeds what did they do? 
A. I put up at a hotel over night with Major McLean 
and the following morning I went before a recruiting 
officer in a recruiting depot and formally enlisted by 
swearing that I was a British subject. Incidentally, I 
then gave my real name, Daniel Wallace. I might say 
that Major McLean vouched for me as being a British 
subject having previous military experience, although 
he knew it was false — he knew I was an American. 

Q. After you enlisted, were you equipped with a 
uniform? A. About a week afterward. 

Q. Then what happened? A. Then I received 
five weeks' training at a place called Caterham, near 
London. 

Q. Did you meet any Americans there? A. I 
met several who enlisted under the same circumstances 
as myself, two of whom went over with me on the "Bal- 
tic." 

Q. After the five weeks' training, what did they 
do? A. We were sent to France. 

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Lands in France. 

Q. Whereabouts? A. We landed at Havre, and 
were then sent to a place called Presea. 

Q. Then what did they do? A. They divided us 
up again into different regiments. I was sent to the 
Second Battalion of the Coldstream Guards. 

Q. Then where did you go? A. We were sent 
to the battle-front, somewhere near the Marne, about 
Ypres, Soissons and Neuve Chappelle. 

Q. Did you participate in any fighting? A. Yes, 
for three weeks. 

Q. Where? A. Around the Marne and at Neuve 
Chappelle. 

Q. Were you wounded? A. Yes, I was hit in 
the right foot by shrapnel. 

British Brutality. 

Q. Then what was done with you? A. I was re- 
fused medical aid, although I asked for it, and was com- 
pelled to march eight days on an injured foot without 
medical aid. I wanted to drop out, but an officer prod- 
ded me with his sword. My foot was cut and bleeding, 
it seemed as though my toes would fall off. I suf- 
fered terrible agony. As a result of my experience, 
I became unable to walk and had to drop on the ground 
and was left for dead on the field. Later on, I was picked 
up by the Germans. This happened sometime in the 
latter part of March, I should say about March 26th. 

Q. What did the Germans do for you? A. I im- 
mediately received proper medical treatment. My 
wound was cleaned and properly dressed and I was con- 
fined in a field hospital, about the same place; I could 
not give the name of the place. I received the same 
treatment they gave their own men. 

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Contrast. 

Q. Then what was done? A. I was held there 
for eleven days, when the Germans withdrew, leaving 
me in the hospital. The British came along and took 
charge of me, following which I was sent back to Eng- 
land, to Nettley Hospital, Southampton. 

Q. How long were you there? A. Three weeks, 
but before my foot was entirely healed I was sent back 
to the front. 

Q. Did you arrive back in France? A. Yes, at 
Calais. 

O. Then what was done with you? A. I was 
drafted to Paris and attached to the staff at Paris, do- 
ing orderly duties and street picketing. 

Deserted. 

Q. While you were in Paris, what did you do? 
A. I deserted with a French Canadian. 

Q. In your English uniform? A. In a French 
uniform. 

Q. How did you happen to change from the Eng- 
lish to a French uniform? A. I did it through the aid 
of the French Canadian, who also deserted and who got 
a uniform for me. He could speak French and he did 
the talking for both of us. 

Q. Then what did you do? A. I got aboard a 
ship *'Maria Antoine," or some name similar to that, at 
Marseilles — a ship which we thought would take us to 
the United States — and hid away as a stowaway, but 
the ship went to Alexandria, Egypt. 

Q. Then what happened? A. Well, I was turned 
over to the British authorities when the ship arrived at 
Alexandria. 

Q. As a deserter? A. Yes. 

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Sentenced to Death. 

Q. Then what happened to you? A. I was taken 
before a Court-martial Board and was tried for being a 
deserter. I was condemned to death, but later my sen- 
tence was changed to fifteen years' imprisonment at 
Abercia, a place which is located outside of Cairo. 

Q. Were you actually sent to prison? A. Yes, 

sir. 

Q. How did you happen to get released? A. By 
King's pardon, as a result of intercession on my behalf 
by a Colonel Payne and a General Maxwell, upon con- 
dition that I would transfer to a Colonial regiment and 
fight. 

Q. How long were you in prison? A. For five 

days. 

Q. Did Colonel Payne and General Maxwell 
know that you were an American citizen? A. I never 
told them. 

Q. Why? A. Because I was afraid they might 
think I was a spy. 

An Australian. 

Q. When you were released, what was done with 
you? A. I went through certain formalities and was 
given an Australian uniform of the Eighth AustraHan 
Light Horse Regiment. 

Q. Then what hapened? A. I was sent to Helio- 
polis, outside of Cairo, Egypt. 

Q. Then what did you do? A. I was kept there 
for three weeks; then I was sent to the Dardanelles, and 
was landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula, at a place known 
as Landing No. 3, south of Sulva Bay, sometime about 
July, 1915. 

Q. At the Gallipoli Peninsula, did you participate 
in the fighting? A. Yes. 

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is given by the Embarking Staff Officer to 
leave their Messes. 

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Wounded. 

Q. How long? A. For seven weeks altogether. 
I was wounded after two weeks — shot in the back ol 
the head — sent to Malta for treatment and then was 
sent back on the hospital ship Lemnos to the Darda- 
nelles. I then served five weeks more and finally was 
struck in the eye by a Turkish scimitar in a charge, and 
it looks as though I'll be blind in that eye for life. 

A. Did any of the officers there know you were 
an American? A. Yes, several knew I was an Amer- 
ican. Whenf /er we got a chance we talked about the 
United States and in these talks I told them all about 
how I happened to enlist. 

Q. Did they make any objection? A. No, they 
were pleased. 

Q. Did you receive proper medical treatment T 
A. Yes, when I got to Alexandria, Egypt, where I was 
taken on the hospital ship, the Z — 3. 

Q. At Alexandria, what was done with you? 
A. I was transferred from there to Cairo and put in a 
hospital for the wounded. 

Q. How long were you there? A. I was there 
two weeks and through the aid of a woman who took 
an interest in me, I succeeded in escaping to Palestine. 

Q. What did this woman do for you? A. She 
stained my face with walnut juice, and some other 
chemical, and gave me civilian clothes. 

Q. Then what did you do? A. I went to Jerusa- 
lem, and came back to Port Said, and then to Suez and 
back to Alexandria. 

Escaped. 

Q. During this time were you in a wounded con- 
dition? A. Yes. 

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Q. Did you have bandages on your eye and was 
your head bandaged the same as it is today? A. Yes. 

Q. Were you in uniform or civilian clothes? 
A. In the civilian clothes which were secured for me 
through the aid of the Egyptian woman who helped 
me to escape. 

Q. Was she a native Egyptian? A. Yes. 

Q. Was she in sympathy with the English or 
against them? A. She was against them. She had no 
sympathy with the English. It was this probably that 
made her aid me in escaping. 

Q. What did you do next in Alexandria? A. I 
went to the American Consul and told him that I had 
been employed in Cairo, and had been injured in a mo- 
tor car accident and that I wanted to go back to the 
United States. He took an interest in my case and as- 
signed me to an American steamer named "Gargoyle," 
and vouched for my passage back to the United States. 

Back Home. 

Q. When did you leave Alexandria on the "Gar- 
goyle"? A. On the 20th of December, 1915. 

Q. When did you land in the United States? 
A. On Saturday, January 15th, 1916. 

Q. Are you receiving any medical treatment at 
the present time for your injured eye? A. No, but I 
expect to apply at the Eye and Ear Infirmary at New 
York City. 

Q. While you were in the British Army, did you 
receive your pay? A. I received three shillings a week. 

Q. How much were you supposed to get? 
A. Seven shillings, six pence. 

Money Held Back. 

Q. What happened to the rest of the money? 
A. The English Government held it back for burial 

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This is a reproduction of a certificate which proves that Mr. Wallace look 

passage on the "Gargoyle" from Alexandria, Egypt, 

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expenses, washing, insurance, etc. They also held back 
other moneys which were to be paid me when I finished 
my term of enlistment. 

Q. Did you know that this money would be held 
back when you enlisted? A. No, I was told that I 
would get a shilling a day. 

Q. Who told you that? A. I was told that by 
Captain Roach at the British Consulate in New York 
City. 

Q. So you did not get what you expected? 
A. No. 

Q. Was there anything about the attitude of Cap- 
tain Roach in the British Consul's office that indicated 
that he knew you were an American citizen? A. Cap- 
tain Roach acted as though he knew I was an American 
citizen. He did not bother much about my answers. 
He asked the questions as though he did not care what 
answers I made. He talked about German barbarities 
and said that he hoped I would kill a few "square-heads'* 
when I got to the other side. 

Q. Did the man who accosted you on the street 
go in the office of the British Consulate with you? 
A. Yes. 

Q. Was Captain Roach there when he brought 
you in? A. Yes. 

Q. Did Captain Roach seem to know this man? 
A. The man who brought me in seemed to know every- 
body in the office. Captain Roach did not speak with 
him, but he went around the place as though he were a 
regular man of the office and everything he said seemed 
to be taken for granted and seemed to me to be thor- 
oughly understood. 

Q. Have you made the above answers, voluntar- 
ily? A. Yes, I have. 

Q. You have spoken of American sailors in Alex- 

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andria; have you any knowledge of bad treatment ac- 
corded to the crews of the American cruisers, "Des 
Moines," "Tennessee" and "Chester," at Alexandria, 
while you were there? A. Yes. 

American Sailors Mobbed. 

Q. What did you observe? A. I heard them 
called such names as "cold-footed swine" and "Yankee 
swine," and other names too filthy to be mentioned. I 
also saw different members of the crews of these crui- 
sers set upon by British soldiers on the streets of Alex- 
andria. I saw soldiers throw bottles at them and injure 
them, and I saw them attacked by British soldiers from 
the EngHsh and Australian contingents in street fights 
and driven down the street towards their ships. I saw 
American sailors get their heads split open by being 
struck by bottles and stones. I also saw American 
sailors, who carried American flags as handkerchiefs, or 
handkerchiefs that seemed to have little American flags 
on the border, and these handkerchiefs were taken from 
them by the EngHsh soldiers and trampled and spit 
upon. I can give you the names of two men who will 
verify this: A. C. CoughUn, U. S. S. "Des Moines," and 
John Meyer, U. S. S. "Chester." 

Q. At this time, were you in the uniform of a 
British soldier? A. Yes, and I remonstrated, too, but 
I was set upon and beaten by the British soldiers for my 

pains. 

Q. Were there any British officers around when 
these things occurred? A. These riots usually started 
when officers were not present, but they attracted so 
much attention that the British military officers came 
up, but did not interfere unless it happened to be a 
mounted miUtary policeman, whose duty it was to keep 
the peace. I was present at conversations between 



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soldiers and officers, and the soldiers always said that 
the Americans said something to start the fight — that 
is, something about the King or about the British — but 
as a matter of fact, I was present on several occasions 
when trouble started and I can truthfully say that the 
trouble was always started by the British soldiers, who 
were in much larger numbers than the Americans. The 
British soldiers never attacked the sailors unless they 
were in larger numbers. 

Q. When these things happened were the British 
soldiers drunk or sober? A. Some were drunk and 
some were sober. 

Q. How about the American sailors? A. As a 
rule they were sober. 

British Hatred of Americans. 

Q. What, in your opinion, was the cause of this 
ill-feeling in the part of the British soldiers against our 
American sailors? A. From what I could see, the 
British soldiers seemed to hate the American sailors. 
They made remarks in my presence about Americans, 
which surprised me, and made me mad. The fact that 
the United States did not join England in the war 
seemed to make worse feelings. They called us crawlers 
and cowards, and said we had cold feet. Even in the 
hospital, I heard British soldiers call American nurses 
in such language as this, "Come here, you Yank," and 
when the nurses went away, the men would say dis- 
respectful things about them to each other, question- 
ing their motives in volunteering as nurses for the Brit- 
ish Army, although from what I could see, the Amer- 
ican nurses gave the soldiers much better treatment and 
better attention than they received from English nurses. 
The English nurses did not seem to have any use for 
the soldiers. Whenever they had the chance, they 

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courted the company of British officers, while the Amer- 
ican nurses seemed to have a great deal of pity for the 
soldiers who had been injured, and gave them good at- 
tention. 

Q. While you were at the Dardanelles, did you 
observe strange methods used with regard to hospital 
ships? A. Yes. 

Q. How did you distinguish the hospital ship 
from the other ships? A. By the red and green lights, 
and lights showing a cross in the night-time. In the 
day-time, by red marking and green bands around the 
sides of the ship. 

Q. Did they use these ships for any other pur- 
poses than hospital ships? A. Yes. 

Q. How did they use them? A. I saw them 
load the ships with arms and guns to be repaired. They 
put them in boxes marked "Red Cross" and then they 
were sent to Egypt. I saw other hospital ships return 
and unloaded of ammunition, guns and troops. 

Abuse of Hospital Ships. 

Q. What other ways was the Red Cross used to 
your knowledge? A. I saw them taking the hospital 
ships out in the Bay, and then I saw them bring up the 
warships behind the hospital ships, so that the hospital 
ships would be placed between the ships that were firing 
and the Turkish positions, so that the Turkish troops 
could not fire at the warships without hitting the hospi- 
tal ships, and so that the hospital ships would hide the 
warships. 

Q. How many times did you see this done? 
A. At least five times. 

Q. How long were you there? A. Seven weeks 
altogether. 

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Abuse of Red Cross Flags. 

Q. Did you see them make any other misuse of 
the Red Cross flag? A. Yes, I saw them take the Red 
Cross flags and plant them on tents right behind ma- 
chine guns, the machine guns being hidden, so that from 
the Turkish lines the places would look Hke Red Cross 
hospitals, with the result that the Turks, if they fired on 
the machine guns, would hit the Red Cross tents. 

Q. Were there any wounded in these tents? 
A. No, they did it as a blind. 

Q. Did the Turks fire on the tents and on the war- 
ships, back of the Red Cross flags? A. No, the trick 
always worked. 

Q. What else did you see them do at the Darda- 
nelles? A. I also saw them use stretchers to carry 
ammunition. They placed the ammunition on the 
stretchers and carried it as though they were carrying 
a wounded man. They had Red Cross men carrying 
these stretchers, so that for all the Turks knew they 
were doing their regular hospital work. 

Q. How often did you see these things done? 
A. They did it all the time. 

Faking Atrocities. 

Q. Did you see any other incidents at the Darda- 
nelles, or in France, which were irregular? A. Yes, on 
one occasion, I saw some British officers take a British 
soldier and dress him up as a woman. They then placed 
him on the ground after tearing his clothes, and had 
another soldier, dressed in the uniform of a German 
soldier, take a gun with a bayonet and place the bayonet 
between the arm and body of the prostrate soldier, 
dressed like a woman, and then they had a picture taken 
by a photographer in these positions, for the purpose of 
showing a German soldier driving a bayonet into a. 

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woman. 

Q. When did you see this? A. In the month of 
March, 1915, before I was wounded. 

Q. Did you hear any conversations about why 
they did this? A. I heard one officer say, "That will 
settle the arguments, all right!" 

Q. What else did you see in France of this charac- 
ter? A. They used ambulances to mount machine 
guns to deceive the Germans. They would drive the 
ambulance up as though going after wounded, turn it 
around, and then give it to them with the machine 
guns. 

Q. Were there any other incidents that you ob- 
served which were irregular in warfare? A. Yes, on 
the Gallipoli Peninsula on one occasion, there were 
about 180 yards of Turkish trenches where apparently 
the Turks had run out of ammunition and where many 
of the men in the trenches were wounded by shrapnel 
from the ships. I heard an officer attached to the Argyle 
and Sutherland Regiments order our men to advance 
on the trench and I heard him tell the men to use hand- 
grenades and their bayonets to kill every one of the 
Turks and take no prisoners. His words were, ''Give 
them no quarter; kill them like dogs." 

No Quarter. 

Q. Did the men obey the comands? A. Yes, we 
charged the trench; I was on the left wing. Some had 
bayonets fixed and some of the men were supplied with 
hand grenades. The officer was with us, but to the rear. 
The men did exactly what they were told. When we 
got to the trench we found about two hundred men, 
some dead, some wounded, and some sitting there, with 
their arms folded, smiling at us. It seems to be the 
Turk's way, in the face of danger or death, to smile. 

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Although they had no ammunition, and although they 
were putting up no fight, and although they had no 
bayonets and no means of defence, with the exception 
of knives, which they did not try to use, the soldiers 
killed every man in the trench. In this fighting, I was 
supplied with grenades. My stomach turned against 
it. It made me sick. I was afraid of being shot, so I 
made a bluff at lighting my grenades and then threw 
them, and I made sure I would not hit any one. My 
grenades did the poor devils no harm as none of them 
exploded. 

Turkish Chivalry. 

Q. Did the Turks ever treat the British soldiers 
brutally or inhumanly so far as you ever heard or saw? 
A. No, on the contrary, they treated us mercifully. On 
the occasion I was wounded in the head, I had rolled 
down a hill, and in falling, or, in rolling, I had hurt my 
ankle, and I was crawling back to a place of safety, 
when I saw the Turk who had shot me stick his head out 
of the bush. When I fell I lost my rifle. It remained 
where I fell before I rolled down the hill, and when the 
Turk saw me helpless, he shouted "Melish," which 
means "Never mind," and he let me crawl back to a 
place of safety without any attempt to shoot me, until 
I was picked up by the Red Cross. At the time this 
thing happened I was sharpshooting or "sniping," as it 
is called, but he got me first. 

German Officers Insulted. 

Q. Did you observe any other incidents? A. Yes, 
whenever a German officer was captured he was usually 
tortured. The officer in charge usually marched him 
before the men and said to the men, "Give him hell, 

32 



boys," and the men, to please the officer, would jump out 
and prod the German officers with their bayonets, spit- 
ting at him, calling him names, and doing everything 
that came into their heads to insult him. The German 
officers usually said nothing, but submitted to it. The 
chances were that they would have been killed if they 
made any resistance. It is my opinion that this was 
done to make the officers mad, so as to give some excuse 
for killing them. This was done whenever they got 
hold of a German officer, which was not very often. 

Other Cruelties. 

I also saw Turkish prisoners treated cruelly. The 
officers would try to get information from them if they 
thought that the prisoners could speak English, and 
upon their failure or refusal to give information, they 
would strike them and subject them to terrible indigni- 
ties. The prisoners were not properly treated or fed 
until they got to concentration camps. These things 
were usually done before the prisoners got into the con- 
centration camps. They were done back of the firing 
line. When the prisoners got back into the camps 
where neutral inspectors were present, they were bet- 
ter treated. 

At Alexandria, the population was in dread of the 
British soldiers. The soldiers went into stores and 
demanded what they wanted, and if they did not get 
what they wanted they would break up the stores, and 
there seemed to be no redress for the owners. When it 
looked as though Greece would fight on the side of the 
British, nothing was too good for the Greeks in Alex- 
andria. But when the Greeks demoboHzed, they raided 
Greek shops, attacked them on the streets and treated 
them terribly; nothing was too bad for them then. 



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British Loafers. 

British soldiers on the whole seem to have an idea 
that by enlisting they might be able to get valuables by 
looting, and they seem to regard their uniform as a 
shield to protect them from punishment for offenses 
they commit. I found the British soldier to be a foul- 
mouthed, drunken loafer. Many of them were beasts. 
There were some exceptions, of course. It was impos- 
sible for me to get along with them. They were a dirty, 
degenerate lot both in mind and in body. When I en- 
listed, I was under the impression that everything was 
in good order in the British Army, that they were nice 
fellows. I thought the British soldier was a gentleman 
and an honorable man, but my experiences have shown 
me that I was mistaken. 

Disillusionized. 

My object in making this statement is to inform 
American citizens who might have a desire to enlist 
about my experiences, and to save them from going 
through what I have gone through. The fact that I 
was an American seemed to aggravate them. I was con- 
stantly set upon because I was an American, and some- 
times treated as bad as though I was their enemy. I 

was often ridiculed and referred to as a "G d 

Yankee," and my way of talking was mimicked in an 
overdrawn way. 

Americans Despised. 

Before I was enlisted, these men who took me in 
tow, were full of stories of the good feelings which pre- 
vailed between the Americans and the English, but my 
experiences in England, France, Egypt and the Darda- 
nelles have convinced me to the contrary. 

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Advice to Americans. 

My advice to my fellow-citiezns is to keep away 
from the war. All the sympathy that I have heard ex- 
pressed in the United States for England is wasted 
upon an ungrateful people. They have no use for 
Americans. 

I suppose everybody will say that I got my just 
desserts, but I feel it was not my fault. The newspapers 
filled my head with a lot of nonsense. I believed what 
they said and thought I was doing the right thing. 

I am glad to be back in U. S. A. I am sorry for 
some of our boys over there. I am afraid they'll never 
come back. No more war for me. No more British for 
me. I've lived through it, and I know what it is. What 
I saw of the Germans, they are clean fellows, but the 
British army is rotten to the core, from the officers 
down. I could tell you how British soldiers even shoot 
their own officers, but I don't want to get anybody into 
trouble. I have seen enough to fill three books, and I 
am sorry I can't tell all I saw. 

The British can't give me back my eye or the full 
use of my foot, but if I can stop their recruiting here, 
I'll be saving the lives of a lot of our boys who are fool- 
ish and who are looking for adventure. Keep away 
from the war. Keep out of Europe. Stay in your own 
country — the best country God ever made — and no 
harm can come to any man as it has come to me. 



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STATE OF NEW YORK, County of New York, City 

of New York, ss. : — 

DANIEL H. WALLACE, being duly sworn, de- 
poses and says: 

That he is a citizen of the United States, born in 
Tucson, Arizona, and the individual who made the fore- 
going answers to the foregoing questions; that he has 
read the foregoing questions and answers; that the 
questions were propounded to him as set forth; that the 
answers were given by him as stated and that the same 
are true of his own knowledge. 




Sworn to before me this 21st day of January, 1916. 




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Commissioner of Deeds, New York City, No. 1106. 



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